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Which of the following is not a measure of dispersion?

  1. Skewness

  2. Mean Deviation

  3. Standard Deviation

  4. Quartile Deviation
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Explanation

Measures of dispersion describe how spread out data is: examples include range, mean deviation, standard deviation, and quartile deviation. Skewness, however, measures the asymmetry or shape of the distribution, not its spread. A highly skewed distribution can have low dispersion, and a symmetric one can have high dispersion, making skewness a measure of shape rather than dispersion.

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